Emily Blunt admitted that she needed some major fashion help prior to booking her role in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.Photo:Unique Nicole/WireImage, Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
Unique Nicole/WireImage, Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
Andy Sachs wasn’t the only person who learned a thing or two about fashion inThe Devil Wears Prada.
Emily Blunt— who playedMeryl Streep’s brisk know-it-all assistant in the 2006 film alongsideAnne Hathway’s Andy — admitted that she picked up quite a lot of industry knowledge during her time on set.
“I didn’t know enough in any way about the fashion industry going into that movie,” she toldVarietyduring a Know Their Lines segment where she was tested on her memory of scripts from her previous projects,The Devil Wears Pradaincluded.
She joked, “I think I’d just been dressing like a teenage boy until that happened, and I learned a lot.”
Playing the role of fashion-forward “Runway” magazine assistant Emily was “a voyage of discovery,” she continued. “In every way. Not just about the industry itself but about style and the art of it and how important it is.”
Blunt, 40, also shared that the film has received an official stamp of approval from friends of hers that “have worked in the fashion industry,” who have told her that the story manages to capture the intensity of the business — which she was completely unaware of before.
In the nearly two decades since the hit film was released, its leading ladies — Blunt, Hathaway, 41 and Streep, 74 — have all looked back fondly on the story about fashion media royalty.
The cast spoke toEntertainment Weeklyin honor of its 15th anniversary in 2021, and Hathaway said of her character, modest fashion novice Sachs: “It spoke to me. It made me feel. It was about a subject that I take very seriously, but in such a wonderfully joyful and lighthearted way.”
When she was offered the part — she’d previously shared thatshe was the ninth pickfor the lead role;Rachel McAdams was who the team had their sights set on— Hathaway recalled, “It was the easiest yes in the world.”
And Hathaway had Streep to thank — director David Frankel revealed that after watchingBrokeback Mountain, Streep campaigned for Hathaway to get the part. “‘Yeah, this girl’s great, and I think we’ll work well together,’ ” he recalled Streep saying.
Emily Blunt in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006).Everett
Everett
Stanley Tucciplayed a fan-favorite role in the film, too, and toldEWhe was “cast at the 11th hour” but there was “no way” he would’ve said no.
“It was just such a beautiful piece of writing,” he reflected. “It was gorgeous. On a structural level, as a script, you could certainly visualize it as a film, but the script had pace to it, and it touched you emotionally. It’s the perfect Hollywood movie.”
Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep star in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006).Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
Barry Wetcher/20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
While it’s unlikely Miranda Priestley’s office will be revisited on the screen anytime soon — thoughHathaway recently called the notion “tempting”— Hathaway and Blunt have both channeled their characters in some major fashion moments over the last few years.
At New York Fashion Week in Sept. 2022, theOceans 8starwore an outfit starkly reminiscent of one Andy Sachs worein one of the film’s many iconic outfit montages, but insisted the similarity was “an accident.”
“I looked in the mirror and I thought,‘Oh that’s funny, I wonder if anybody will notice?’ ” she recalled onTodayseveral weeks later.
She admitted, “It was kind of nuts wasn’t it?”
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Blunt was all in for the joke as she replied, “I wish I was. I ate a pizza because I thought, ‘Well, I’m covered up, so I’ll be all right,’ ” before adding, “And then I tried to put on my skinny pants…”
source: people.com
